Modern art and the death of a culture

If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connected, dying is still a part of life...

The movement from the Renaissance to the early modern period may have been one of the most tumultuous times in the history of the western world. Everything, sacred and profane, was...

Using a historical framework, this book offers not only the penal history of the death penalty in the states that have given women the death penalty, but it also retells the storie...

How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationship to death. Facebook is the biggest cemetery in the world, with co...

A landmark dissenting opinion arguing against the death penalty. Does the death penalty violate the Constitution? InAgainst the Death Penalty, Justice Stephen Bre...

Major religious traditions of the world contain perspectives of perennial importance on the topic of death and afterlife. Such concepts and beliefs are not only reflected directly ...

A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of death from 500BC-800AD. Drawing together contributions f...

The African American influence on popular culture is among the most sweeping and lasting this country has seen. Despite a history of institutionalized racism, black artists, entert...